Responsible to (Job title): MD of Corporate Development with dotted line into the Director of Product

The Guardian is one of the world’s biggest liberal news organisations. We are renowned for our groundbreaking independent journalism, our award-winning digital products and excellent engineering team.

What your role will be

As Head of Product in Corporate Development, you will be critical to guiding the Guardian through one of the most difficult periods in the history of media to successfully support our mission in delivering award-winning liberal, fact-based journalism to the world in perpetuity.

You will be the product lead within the newly formed Corporate Development department responsible for creating and executing a novel product portfolio with a purpose to leverage the Guardian brand and generate new revenue streams within the next 1-3 years by addressing reader needs not yet addressed and leveraging Guardian assets to address user needs in new markets.

Alongside key stakeholders you will be responsible for defining a vision for the alternative revenue models inline with the Guardian’s purpose and values, determining the product strategy to achieve that vision and guide its execution. This means assessing what is the most impactful set of initiatives, defining what would be the most efficient way to resource and implement them.

There will be no permanent development team for this role as the best way for implementation will be project/initiative related. There will be no direct line management responsibility but potentially overseeing a team on a project bases.

What your mission will be:

We haven’t put up a paywall. Instead, we want to remain a strong, progressive force that is open for all. We want to make sure that generations to come can read the Guardian, and that requires making our finances sustainable. We know there is a better way.

In October, we announced that we’re now funded more by our readers than by our advertisers. We are determined not to stop there but continue exploring new ways in which we can generate a financially sustainable organisation. In collaboration with relevant stakeholders, your team will be focusing on finding new revenue streams by building a real value-exchange to our readers and also leveraging the Guardian’s assets to enter entirely new markets.

What you’ll be doing:

Work with relevant stakeholders to build solid business cases that justify every product initiative from a reader and revenue perspective as well as looking into options to reach much wider audiences.

Work with relevant stakeholders to build solid business cases that leverage existing assets to develop new products in new markets.

Understand our users’ needs, the company’s broader strategy and what is happening in this fast paced industry

Collaborate with a tight knit group of key stakeholders to develop a yearly product vision and devise a winning strategy that would explore and realise additional revenue streams for the Guardian / GMG over the next 3 years

Create quarterly plans or a roadmap and ensure there is a strong reader and business rationale whilst ensuring relevant stakeholders’ understanding and buy into the direction and focus

Based on experience recommend the best ways to execute a product or a project (external vs internal) and participate actively is setting up and motivating the teams

Oversee development resource, ensuring deliverables are on time on budget and to specification. Where applicable based on the project manage Scrum master or equivalent resource

Has at least 5 years of product management experience across web & apps

Experience of resourcing and managing digital development teams

Orchestrates a cross-functional product team. You know how to balance the need to maintain product health with the need to drive towards transformative goals

Articulates the voice of the user. The “why” behind your product and strategy underpins all work you do

Good understanding and level of comfort with the technical side of things

Loves great problems. You know how to uncover the jobs users have and how to go about finding the right solution. You encourage your teams to think differently

Builds partnerships. You are effective at creating relationships across a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation and uncovering the outcomes they’re hoping to achieve

Provides clear product direction. You can utilise a cross disciplinary team to create and maintain an environment of high performance with a clear focus on measurable outcomes

Lives and breathe evidence-based product development. You advocate for your teams to utilise insights from market research, data and user research to build a clear picture

Obsesses about how to drive greater positive impact, and maintaining clear performance metrics and dashboards. You can show how you set targets and tracked progress against them in transparent, measurable ways

Practices lean product discovery methods. You have used a range of lean testing methods to identify and validate the best solutions

Articulates the voice of the user. The “why” behind your product and strategy underpins all work you do

What we offer you

Flexible working

Generous pension scheme

Health insurance and dental scheme

Up to 18 weeks of parental leave at full pay

Child care assistance vouchers

Cycle to work scheme

Paid volunteering days

Subsidised gym membership

Annual season ticket loan

We value diversity

Here at the Guardian we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. As a global news organisation we need to reflect the world around us and we can’t do this without a diverse workforce. We know that having a range of backgrounds, lived experience and perspectives leads to a more enriching and satisfying workplace. We also want our employees to look forward to coming to work and fostering a culture of inclusion is one of the ways we do this

Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the largest English-speaking quality newspaper websites in the world. Since launching US and Australian digital editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively, traffic from outside of the UK now represents over two-thirds of the Guardian's total digital audience.

In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821, and the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer.

GNM is the core business of Guardian Media Group (GMG), whose sole shareholder is The Scott Trust Ltd. The core purpose of The Scott Trust is to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.